LongTail Video: The State Of HTML5 Video
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LongTail Video: The State Of HTML5 Video
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Re: LongTail Video: The State Of HTML5 Video
#2Several bugs exist in this article, which I'd report directly if they had some means of feedback other than a Facebook page.
First, they claim that "Both iOS and Android only support MP4 video. This will remain the case for any mobile device...", but Android has supported WebM since 2.3.3, and supports streaming of WebM in 4.0 and newer.
They also continue to count Chrome as supporting MP4, despite Google announcing that they've dropped support for it, just because they haven't actually ended the transition period yet.
The table for fullscreen APIs still shows an X for Firefox, despite Firefox supporting fullscreen since Firefox 10.
The section on adaptive streaming only mentions the standard use of range requests as a footnote, otherwise implying a lack of streaming support. It also claims (incorrectly) that Android can't usefully do streaming at all.
Re: LongTail Video: The State Of HTML5 Video
#3Several bugs exist in this article, which I'd report directly if they had some means of feedback other than a Facebook page. First, they claim that "Both iOS and Android only support MP4 video. This will remain the case for any mobile device...", but Android has supported WebM since 2.3.3, and supports streaming of WebM in 4.0 and newer. They also continue to count Chrome as supporting MP4, despite Google announcing…
As far as firefox and full screen going, I suspect that's because 10 isn't a stable release yet.
Re: LongTail Video: The State Of HTML5 Video
#4Several bugs exist in this article, which I'd report directly if they had some means of feedback other than a Facebook page. First, they claim that "Both iOS and Android only support MP4 video. This will remain the case for any mobile device...", but Android has supported WebM since 2.3.3, and supports streaming of WebM in 4.0 and newer. They also continue to count Chrome as supporting MP4, despite Google announcing…
The Chrome Product manager said they were going to drop it on a Chromium blog post over a year ago but haven't said anything about it since.
I can't find any updates on that nor have I seen a timeline for it being dropped. While they haven't retracted the commitment, it's probably safe to continue counting Chrome as supporting h.264 since it does support it.
Re: LongTail Video: The State Of HTML5 Video
#5"Connected TVs and settop boxes are not yet a factor. Popular devices (XBox, PS3, Apple TV, Roku) have neither web browsers nor app markets."
The PS3 does have a browser. It's not a very good browser, but it's been there since the system launched.